Cruelty Is the Point-- 2025

He lied.
We told you.
You believed him.
You voted for This America.
The cruelty is the point.

When lawlessness rules from the top,
greed is virtue and power is for sale,
ceding power to the richest
denying justice to the people…
The cruelty is the point.

If inclusion is a crime
and hate is a virtue,
when empathy is a sin
but ‘owning the libs’ is cool…
The cruelty is the point.

When difference is outlawed
and mercy is offensive…
suffering is your fault
you’re not a billionaire…
The cruelty is the point.

Ripping babies from mother’s arms,
locking them in cages is heroic
blaming the poor and hungry
dividing us against us…
The cruelty is the point.

A world, full of enemies
not good enough to be loved,
burns… burying the forsaken.
ash falls on martyrs’ graves.
The cruelty is the point.

Martyrs doomed by love unbounded
the bravest hearts stilled
by lawless proud destroyers
naming themselves “American patriots”…
The cruelty is the point.

He lied.
We told you.
You believed him.
You voted for This America.
The cruelty is the point.

Reviews

[MCS]

Powerful piece of writing.
I don’t understand this desire to bring back the rule of tyrants and reestablish the third reich. But when the ruler’s bedside reading choice is mein kampf, what else needs to be said?

[MomzillaNC]

Truly. I feel the same. Sadly, I figure we're right about where Germany was in 1933.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

There seems to be no heart at all in this new Kingdom.
My thought right now to those people is..."you wanted him, you got him!"

[MomzillaNC]

Yeah… they got what they voted for. Unfortunately, so did the rest of us.

Thanks, Jacob

[Dylan Macadham]

A Powerful piece! ...Repeating "cruelty is the point," is not only bracingly effective, it is, in my mind, a perfect glimpse into Trump's twisted mind. A weak man playing the part of a Strongman.

[MomzillaNC]

"…a perfect glimpse into Trump's twisted mind." I feel much the same, but about all of MAGA. I never imagined so many of my fellow Americans were so weighted in cruelty.

Thanks so much.

[Dylan Macadham]

Yes, MAGA! Shocking similarities, I fear, to 1930's Germany.

[MomzillaNC]

Yep. We're right about where Germany was in 1933.

[Dylan Macadham]

... complete with Field Marshal Musk's salute!